Boris Johnson Arrives In Gujarat For A 2-Day India Visit

Boris Johnson, UK president
Boris Johnson has landed in India for a 2-day visit
Boris Johnson, UK president
Boris Johnson has landed in India for a 2-day visit

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, arrived in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, early this morning. According to the news agency ANI, this is the start of his two-day visit to India.

During his two-day visit to India beginning April 21, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce major investments in key industries and call for democracies to band together in the face of threats from “autocratic states.”

According to an AFP report, the British Prime Minister will face calls to apologise for a colonial-era massacre when he visits the Indian state of Gujarat on Thursday, 100 years after up to 1,200 people were killed protesting against imperial rule.

Last month marked the 100th anniversary of the Pal-Dadhvav massacre, when 2,000 tribal people led by social reformer Motilal Tejawat gathered to protest exploitation, forced labour, and high taxes, according to Indian historians. British Major HG Sutton, according to the Gujarat state government, ordered his troops to open fire. “The entire area was filled with corpses, like a battlefield,” it said. It went on to say that two wells were “overflowing with bodies.”

The killings were depicted as the “untold story of bravery and sacrifice of the tribals” on the state’s official float at this year’s annual Republic Day parade, according to a statement that put the death toll at 1,200.

According to a report by the news agency ANI, Madeleine Slade or Mirabehn, the daughter of a British admiral, has written an autobiography.

The autobiography of Madeleine Slade or Mirabehn, the daughter of a British admiral who became Mahatma Gandhi’s disciple, will be presented to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson by Sabarmati Ashram, according to ANI. It was one of Mahatma Gandhi’s first two books, but it was never published.

Downing Street had issued a statement ahead of his visit, saying, “On Thursday, the visit will begin in Ahmedabad, where he will meet with top business leaders and discuss the UK and India’s thriving commercial, trade, and people links. This will be the first visit to Gujarat by a British Prime Minister. Gujarat is India’s fifth-largest state and the ancestral home of roughly half of the UK’s British-Indian population.”

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